Arizona Transgender Bathroom Bill Won’t Move
The sponsor of an Arizona bill targeting transgendered people who want to use bathrooms of the gender they identify with says he's giving up on the issue this Legislative session.
Republican Rep. John Kavanagh said Wednesday there's concern in his caucus about some of his proposal's definitions, so it will have to be shelved until next year.
Kavanagh caused a national uproar in March when he proposed the bathroom privacy language.
The original bill would have made it a crime for a transgendered person to use a bathroom other than the one designated for his or her birth sex.
After an outcry from advocacy groups, Kavanagh changed the measure to instead shield businesses from civil or criminal liability if they ban people from restrooms that don't match their birth sex.